On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Ashish Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a linux installation on a physical machine. The filesystem has been
> created on 320GB of disk. I want to create a image of it and create a copy
> of the system. How can I do that, the second disk I have is 80 GB. I have
> tried partimage, it backs up only the used space, however when recreating,
> it requires the original space. Is there any other way.

Use gtar or cpio to make a single image file of your 320GB file system.

Partition the 80GB disk and run mkfs to create a new and empty
file system.

Use gtar or cpio again to extract the files back.

- Raja
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